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Seriously? $_ is always harder to understand than a well-named variable.
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by BUU (Prior) on Jun 17, 2005 at 04:17 UTC
    Um. Yes? 
    for( @birds )
{
  next unless /bar/;
  s/puffin/poppin/;
  print;
}

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    Versus 
    for $bird (@birds)
{
  next unless $bird =~ /bar/;
  $bird =~ s/puffin/poppin/;
  print $bird;
}

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    Maybe it's me or my choice of code, but I don't really see the second one as being much harder to understand.
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      No big deal -- we just diagree. I think the second is easier to read. Incidentally, you didn't explicitly use $_ here, just default function args. I find it more jarring when the $_ is explicit.
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